Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: When thou my righteous Judge shalt come
Topic: Present and Future/Second Advent
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: L Mason
Meter: CPM
Tune: Meribah
Hymn Number: 744
Page Number: 273, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen thou, my righteous Judge, shalt come,
To take thy ransomed people home,
Shall I among them stand?
Shall such a worthless worm as I,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at thy right hand?
I love to meet thy people now,
Before thy feet with them to bow,
Though vilest of them all;
But-can I bear the piercing thought-
What if my name should be left out
When thou for them shalt call?
O Lord, prevent it by thy grace:
Be thou my only hiding-place,
In this, the accepted day;
Thy pardoning voice, oh, let me hear,
To still my unbelieving fear,
Nor let me fall, I pray.
And when the final trump shall sound,
Among thy saints let me be found,
To bow before thy face;
Then in triumphant strains I'll sing,
While heaven's resounding mansions ring
With praise of sovereign grace.